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REED v. TOWN OF BABYLON

No. 88-CV-0566(JS).

914 F.Supp. 843 (1996)

Dr. Eugene T. REED, Sr., Dr. Harold Kopchynski, Dr. Warren St. James, Isabell Kennedy, Reginald Harewood, Robert Bean, Lillian Scott, Bernice G. Burnett, Gwendolyn Brown, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. TOWN OF BABYLON, Richard H. Schaffer Jr., Anthony A. Tafuri, Francine V. Brown, Patrick Haugen and Robert E. Kaufold, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

January 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Ford, Brooklyn, New York and Edward S. Hom, Rego Park, New York, for Plaintiffs.

Katharine I. Butler, Columbia, South Carolina and Richard C. Mulle, Martin, Fallon & Mulle, Huntington, New York, for Defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER

SEYBERT, District Judge:

Plaintiffs, African-American citizens of the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, challenge the town's at-large election system for its Town Board, charging that the system violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended (the "Act"), 42 U.S.C. Section 1973, and the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs allege...

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